Word: hudnut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Design 1 will be discontinued at the end of this term, Joseph Hudnut 09, Dean of the Faculty of Design, disclosed yesterday. The School of Design's basic course in the theory of design, it embodies the ideas of Walter Gropius, professor of Architecture, and the Bauhaus school...
Following Hudnut's announcement, Gropius and Richard Filipowaki, instructor in the course, issued statements decrying the action...
...geriatrics, has great faith "in the vast potential inherent in some 12 to 15 million people [in the U.S.] past the age of 65." Bobst himself is a testimonial to his faith. For him, life began anew at 60, when he came out of retirement to take over Warner-Hudnut. He also breathed new life into the company. Bobst launched a big expansion program, in six years boosted the company's sales by 70% to $45 million, its net from...
...head of Warner-Hudnut (then William R. Warner & Co., Inc.), a longtime Bobst friend, was ailing, and thought his company needed someone new at the top; he asked Bobst to take over. "The business was dominated by cosmetic cooks," Bobst recalls. "They built their products on the basis of sight, smell and feel. They had no regard for the needs of the skin and hair." Bobst changed all that by putting a top chemist in charge of Warner's cosmetics research...
...last year's sales: $1,200,000), got a cut-rate deal on Chen Yu (nail polish and lipstick), and paid $1,000,000 for Raymond Laboratories, maker of Rayve shampoos and home permanents (later sold to Lever Bros, for $5,000,000). Bobst also brought out Hudnut's own line of men's toilet goods and heavily plugged such oldtime Warner standbys as the famed Sloan's Liniment and the DuBarry Success Schools...